2. Resistance to Militaries and Resistance to Militarism

Reinstate Malalai Joya to Afghanistan's Parliament: Feminist Banned for Honesty

Joya at a UNIFEM conference, Photo: AfghanKabul, 2007
Authors: Human Rights Watch

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Israeli Warplanes Strike Syrian Facility: IAEA, Syrian Dissident, Criticize Israeli and Syrian Governments

Authors: Trihn Nguyen

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Anti-TortureActivists Convicted: Guantánamo Prison Put On Trial

The thirty five defendants stand in front of Superior Court, Photo: Bill Ofenlach, www.witnesstorture.org
Authors: Frida Berrigan

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We have a right to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and Guantánamo Bay prison is beyond grievous.

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Coming to Terms: Bereaved Families Take Action Against the War

War is Not the Answer
Authors: Gilda Carbanaro

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This country must come to terms with what was done in our name. I will make this my life's work if need be.

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Help Bring Justice to Timor-Leste: A Sample Letter

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Indonesia's Arms Appetite

Authors: Frida Berrigan

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The checks on US military aid are gone, and now the floodgates have opened.

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Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan

Silver Spring, MD, March 2008. Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan. PHOTO: © Diane Greene Lent 2008
Authors: Camilo Mejia Geoff Millard Jason Lemieux

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I was explicitly told by my chain of command that I could shoot anyone who came closer to me than I felt comfortable with.

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Iraqi Memorial

An Air Force JROTC student attending the Eyes Wide Open exhibit in Orlando, FL, October 2004. Photo: Herb Snitzer/AFSC
Authors: Joseph DeLappe

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One Way to Live a Pacifist Life: After 80 Years of Activism - WWII CO Ralph DiGia Dies

Ralph DiGia promoting war tax resistance on tax day, April 17, 2007. photo: Ed Hedemann
Authors: Judith Mahoney Pasternak

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The US Attorney referred him to the War Resisters League. He never left.

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How to Avoid Destroying Our Movements: On the death of SDS, Nonviolence, and the War

Meaghan Linick (right) of Newschool SDS, Iraq Moratorium, 2007. Photo Thomas Good/Next Left Notes
Authors: Mark Rudd

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We (the Weather Underground) did the FBI's work for them.

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